"Writing seems like the only job where what you think and feel really matters."

“We expect that 25 years from now, the use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary to further the interest approved today.”

“I try to only work with people whose craft I believe in.”

Source : "Donnis Talks 'Fashionably Late,' Atlantic Debut & Texting With T.I". Interview with Jordan Martin, www.complex.com. June 24, 2010.

“The thing that impressed everyone when he same on the scene as a 17 year old was he already spoke like a man. (on Michael Owen)”

“Great poetry must be admired, because it is great and because it is poetry, and so we admire it.”

“As I get older, I want to do more films for kids because they're the best audience around. Just putting a smile on a kid's face is the best thing.”

“If I could come out in this book and advocate complete revolution and the violent overthrow of the United States of America, without being thrown in jail, I would not have written The Anarchist Cookbook, and there would be no need for it.”

“It has appeared that from the inevitable laws of our nature, some human beings must suffer from want. These are the unhappy persons who, in the great lottery of life, have drawn a blank.”

Source : Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population and Other Writings”, p.112, Penguin UK

“The phenomenon of emergence takes place at critical points of instability that arise from fluctuations in the environment, amplified by feedback loops. Emergence results in the creation of novelty, and this novelty is often qualitatively different from the phenomenon out of which it emerged.”